Abandoned mines in Rogers County, Oklahoma

1. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   98 25.7%
2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   66 17.3%
3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   41 10.8%
4. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   3 0.8%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   173 45.4%

…and 67 more problems not listed here.

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. Black Eagle #1

   Surface coal · Paramount Corp · MSHA ID 3401669
   Abandoned 1996-04-09
2. Blue Creek Mine No 2

   Surface coal · Ram Constructors Inc · MSHA ID 3401212
   Abandoned and Sealed 1982-06-07
3. Broken Bow #1

   Surface coal · Broken Bow Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401352
   Abandoned and Sealed 1982-09-10
4. Catale #1 Loadout

   Facility coal · Savage Coal Service Corp · MSHA ID 3401626
   Abandoned 1990-01-23
5. Chelsea Tipple

   Facility coal · Chelsea Tipple Company · MSHA ID 3401126
   Abandoned 1985-03-26
6. Claremore Quarry

   Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Central, Inc · MSHA ID 3400410
   Abandoned 2015-03-09
7. Craig County Mine

   Surface coal · Carbonex Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401354
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-01-20
8. Davis No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Hefner & Son Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400939
   Abandoned 1980-09-11
9. Four Star No 1 Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Four Star Mining Co Inc · MSHA ID 3400917
   Abandoned 1976-06-07
10. Foyil Mine

    Surface coal · Carbonex Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401183
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
11. Hickory Coal Foyil Mine

    Surface coal · Hickory Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3400988
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-06-20
12. Inter-Chem No 3

    Surface coal · Inter-Chem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400938
    Abandoned and Sealed 1989-09-25
13. Koors Lite #1

    Surface coal · Energy Associates Inc · MSHA ID 3401307
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-09-10
14. Limestone Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Cement · MSHA ID 3400456
    Abandoned 1983-06-14
15. Lite Wate Clay Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chandler Materials Company · MSHA ID 3401106
    Abandoned 1985-08-01
16. Mavco #1

    Surface coal · Maverick Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401700
    Abandoned 1993-08-24
17. Mc Nabb Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Nabb Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401334
    Abandoned 1994-10-26
18. Mcnabb Mine

    Surface coal · Mc Nabb Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3400146
    Abandoned 1996-10-10
19. Memory Valley Strip

    Surface coal · G & P Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3400986
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
20. Oologah Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Central, Inc · MSHA ID 3401036
    Abandoned 2015-03-09
21. Phoenix Mine

    Facility coal · Phoenix Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401618
    Abandoned 2012-08-21
22. Rebbeca Mine

    Surface coal · United Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3400567
    Abandoned 1975-08-11
23. Recovery

    Surface coal · Carbonex Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401184
    Abandoned 1979-10-29
24. Reedy Mine

    Surface coal · Local Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401066
    Abandoned 1981-01-13
25. Rodonda No 1

    Surface coal · Gable Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400844
    Abandoned 1977-02-14
26. Rogers #2

    Surface coal · Transwestern Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401481
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-11-26
27. Rogers #3

    Surface coal · Transwestern Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401551
    Abandoned 1991-07-29
28. Rogers #4

    Surface coal · Transwestern Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401611
    Abandoned and Sealed 1987-05-15
29. Rogers County Mine

    Surface coal · Hickory Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3401206
    Abandoned 1993-12-09
30. Rogers County Mine

    Surface coal · Nationwide Mining Inc · MSHA ID 3401768
    Abandoned 1994-05-25
31. Rogers County No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 3400147
    Abandoned 1976-09-23
32. Rogers No 1

    Surface coal · R & R Mining Company · MSHA ID 3401169
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
33. Rogers No 1

    Surface coal · Turner Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 3401430
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-07-30
34. Round Nountain Shale Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chandler Materials Company · MSHA ID 3400556
    Abandoned 1985-04-29
35. Russell Creek No 2 Strip

    Surface coal · Russell Creek Coal Company · MSHA ID 3401197
    Abandoned 1981-12-02
36. Seven Star Mine

    Surface coal · Seven Star Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401006
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
37. Shale Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Cement · MSHA ID 3401237
    Abandoned 1981-09-23
38. Shamrock Mine #1

    Surface coal · Shamrock Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401031
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
39. Shamrock Tipple

    Facility coal · Shamrock Tipple Company Inc · MSHA ID 3401251
    Abandoned 1987-03-23
40. Solar #2

    Surface coal · Solar Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 3400998
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-11-17
41. Spencer Creek Mine

    Surface coal · Hickory Coal Corp · MSHA ID 3401632
    Abandoned and Sealed 1987-12-14
42. Turfcon No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Turfcon Inc · MSHA ID 3400975
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
43. Whitehill No 1

    Surface coal · Four D Energy Inc · MSHA ID 3401023
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-03-26
44. Wilson No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Wilson Construction Company · MSHA ID 3400973
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
45. Young No.1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hardscape Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 3402124
    Abandoned 2012-12-27

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Ottawa County 605
• Le Flore County 219
• Johnston County 160
• Haskell County 151
• Carter County 134
• McCurtain County 128
• Bryan County 126
• Seminole County 121
• Texas County 115
• Okfuskee County 114
• Cleveland County 112
• Blaine County 108

1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
   597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
   States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
   One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
   Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
   Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
   Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
   The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
   Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.